Galactic Empires, Volume One & Volume Two edited by Brian W. Aldiss

[james_davis_nicoll]

Two disco-era anthologies with a unifying theme made clear by the title.

Galactic Empires, Volume One & Volume Two edited by Brian W. Aldiss

Comments

[oh6]

I'm pretty sure I read Immigrant in one Simak anthology or another. I definitely read "The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal", "The Possessed", "Been a Long, Long time" (not sure how it fit Aldiss' criteria), "Beep", and "The Bounty Hunter" (though I don't remember much, if any, of it.)

Thanks to the mention of Hugh Laurie in the context of Sector General, I now know one role he's played, as opposed to my previous understanding of him as "some actor or other."

[patrick_morris_miller]

My neurologist has never watched House. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

[agharta75]

And Noah Wyle plays Conway.

[patrick_morris_miller]

ER or The Pitt? (Not that there's much difference.)

[agharta75]

Is there much difference? :-)

Now we need a Murchison (maybe we can downplay the physical attributes and give her a first name :-) ) and a lot of voice actors ...

[patrick_morris_miller]

The Crichton estate smells money, so they're saying there isn't.

[agharta75]

They'd probably have problems with the "ER In Space" pitch, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Specifically "Emergency Ward 10" I think, at the time - a British TV soap-opera show. Started in 1957, like "Sector General". "Dr Kildare" was in print much earlier, on television much later (1960).

I only now thought "Is an emergency ward a thing?" And in fact, the words seem to lead chiefly to "Emergency Ward 10" - and to some indications that it was meant to be "Emergency - (in) Ward 10". And originally conceived as "Calling Nurse Roberts". But later such as in film "Life in Emergency Ward 10", it's treated as the name of the place.

A current (up to 2025) Australian documentary series also popped up. "The Royal Melbourne Hospital's busy trauma centre" is covered in show "The Emergency Ward". (At least, that's the title on British "Channel 4".) but surely it's "The Trauma Centre".

Robert Carnegie